First Principles

First Principles – First Law

Written by: M.G. Rhoads
2020-12-01 ·

You’ve got a great idea for a new product. You’ve sketched out designs. You’ve talked to potential customers and people are SUPER excited about buying it. All that’s left is to make it, right? Not so fast. If you read our recent series on design thinking you … [Read more...] about First Principles – First Law

You know that experiments are important for making good decisions in your Maker business. You know that experiments need to test at a time in order to give you useful information. You know that you need to use a large enough sample size and only think of a large difference between the two conditions is […]

You’re designing an experiment for your business. And you know that step 1 is to separate out the variables you want to test. You know that if you try to change more than one thing at a time, you won’t actually find out which one(s) affected your product and which didn’t! (And if you don’t? […]

You want to do an experiment to inform your decisions in your Maker or small-scale manufacturing business. (If you don’t? Read the last article to learn why experiments can help you optimize your manufacturing process.) Rhonda was convinced. If you’re a regular PCat reader, you know that Rhonda is a retired nurse who now runs […]